Before you create or contribute anything for SuperTuxKart, you should read the official documentation available for your type of contribution. For your convenience, the guideline articles along with a brief summary of some of the content within are listed below. However, reading all the relevant documentation is strongly recommended!

Licensing InformationNot very exciting, but if you don't consider this information, anything you make we will be unable to use for STK. This is a must-read if you don't want to waste time making art we will be unable to use legally

Visual Art Style GuidelinesThe SuperTuxKart environment is generally meant to be light and/or colorful and/or comic-like. Avoid using textures where you can easily see the tiling/repetitions and easy-to-spot repeating patterns. Try to keep an appropriate balance between high-poly and low-poly (see Making kart tutorial for details about karts). Also avoid very (and even moderately) steep slopes, as physics will have trouble with them.

For the main-package: karts should relate to a certain open-source mascot. Keep roughly the same size as the Tux kart (to be friendly with the physics engine; especially avoid making it thin and tall). We cannot accept tracks with unclear licensing terms (or textures not clearly licensed). Our license of choice is Creative-Commons-By-SA 3+. Please don't request us to add your track in the main package; first of all this is impolite, and second we will come to you when there is high-quality work But let not the main package be your only goal, sharing with the community is great too!

Music should be in ogg/vorbis (.ogg) format, and try to keep the music file size under 2-3 megabytes. We want most music to be light-hearted, but it is required that the music isn't 'aggressive'. Sound effects should be provided in some lossless format (e.g. wave) - we will convert them to ogg[/list]

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I want to add a way to do about doing 3d especially about making tracks

1 Please start to open a New topic 2 Propose a description of the concept and a global plan3 Everybody can participate to find links to 3D models in relation with track theme4 Making a topview of track an shortcuts (way and curves)5 Doing it in 3D ( only the base track , drivelines ...)6 Tests7 Improving track

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please moderate meIf not ,If you think it's a good idea write it to wiki

I am improving the kart making tutorial (based on blender 2.49 but as I don't talk of technical details I think it'll be OK for the 2.5), it will be done next week if I have the time to finalize it. I think most of STK's contributors work on STK on their free time and maybe video tutorials are not the first thing they want to do (this rather a low priority task compared to everything else that needs to be done ). Though, if you think a video tutorial is necessary and have the time to do it, it would be very welcome

well, yeah. it's not that important compared to other things. but the process of making it (using 2.49b) is confusing for someone who uses the traditional materials, though. I was like, "where did my eye textures go?". figured it out, anyways.

I haven't tried making a track and I guess that would be much confusing...

but I really think video tutorials would be a good way to promote STK. good job with the game anyways!

RaceAce {l Wrote}:Um, I feel really stupid asking this, but how do I create a new topic? I can't seem to find a button or anything. ;(

Go to this page: viewforum.php?f=16. Then you click on either "STK General" or "STK Contributions", depending on where you want to post the topic. On these pages is a link called "Post a new topic" near the top.

Wolfs {l Wrote}:Go to this page: viewforum.php?f=16. Then you click on either "STK General" or "STK Contributions", depending on where you want to post the topic. On these pages is a link called "Post a new topic" near the top.